Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:06:15 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
       Glenn Streiff <gstreiff@NetEffect.com>,
       Faisal Latif <flatif@NetEffect.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       general@lists.openfabrics.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:16:45PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> >> I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are 
> >> anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines
> >>     
> >
> > Perhaps we should increase line length limit, 132 should be fine.
> > Especially useful with long printk() lines and long arithmetic
> > expressions.
> >   
> 
> 
> Yes; or even longer.  80 characters might have made sense on a screen
> when the alternative was 80 characters on a punched card, but on a
> modern computer it's very restrictive.  That's especially true with the
> deep indents that you quickly get in C

... if your style is lousy.  I agree that situation with printks is
not normal in that respect and I certainly have no love for the
checkpatch nonsense, but pressure to keep the fucking nesting depth
low is a Good Thing(tm).
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